It is an absolutely terrible system that they have built. If you do match with someone I have found that it is imperitive that you make a choice to meet up with them right away. If you don't, they simply disappear into the background and end up being someone in your contact list that you don't even remember who they are.

people are so addicted to swiping on their phones that if they don't get immediate gratification, they just go back to swiping even though it hasn't resulted in success by using that method up to this point. It's crazy, isn't it?